Medical Definition of Mycetoma
1. 1. A chronic infection involving the feet and characterised by the formation of localised lesions with tumefactions and multiple draining sinuses. The exudate contains granules that may be yellow, white, red, brown, or black, depending upon the causative agent. Mycetoma is caused by two principal groups of microorganisms: A. Actinomycotic mycetoma is caused by actinomycetes, including species of Streptomyces, Actinomadurae, and Nocardia. B. Eumycotic mycetoma is caused by true fungi, including species of Madurella, Exophiala, Pseudallescheria, Curvularia, Neotestudina, Pyrenochaeta, Aspergillus, Leptosphaeria, Plemodomus, Polycytella, Fusarium, Phialophora, Corynespora, Cylindrocarpon, Pseudochaetosphaeronema, Bipolaris, and Acremonium. Synonym: fungous foot, Madura boil, Madura foot, maduromycosis. 2. Any tumour with draining sinuses produced by filamentous fungi. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mycetoma
Literary usage of Mycetoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"Two varieties of mycetoma are described by the author, ... Close analogies are
pointed out by Dr. Carter, between mycetoma and ..."
2. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"568; Hyde, Senn and Bishop, "A Contribution to the Study of mycetoma in America,"
Jour. ... "Some Clinical Aspects of mycetoma; an Unusual form of Callosity ..."
3. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"mycetoma. Section of tumor of inoculated dog. X 390 (Musgrave and Clegg). ...
of a white variety of mycetoma. The parasite is distinct from actinomyces and ..."
4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"This eminent author in his definition of mycetoma term« it "a fungus disease of
warm climates, affecting principally the foot, occasionally the hand, ..."
5. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1898)
"mycetoma is a chronic inflammatory process, most commonly affecting the tissues
... A. Vandyke Carter, who was the first to show that mycetoma was a special ..."
6. The Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1919)
"CHAPTER XXV mycetoma HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION History.—The disease
was first described about 200 years ago, but at that time was often confused ..."
7. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"Carter, Treatise on mycetoma, or the Fungus Diseases of India, London, 1874. ...
Ruelle, Contribution a l'Etude de mycetoma, Bordeaux, 1893, p. 13 et seg. ..."
8. The Geography of Disease by Frank Gerard Clemow (1903)
"mycetoma is a peculiar affection of the foot, sometimes of the hand, ... In the
white variety of mycetoma a ray-shaped fungus resembling that of ..."
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